I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line — Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
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I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow

— Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
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